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5 Ways To Improve Patient Centricity In Clinical Trials

In the world of clinical trials, there's a growing realization that success isn't just about the science—it's also about the people participating in the studies.

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Research Highlights

The Importance of a Participant-centered Approach to Clinical Trials

When clinical trials prioritize the patient, they become more than just data-driven processes. They turn into a collaborative effort the participants' experiences, needs, and preferences.

Research Highlights

Harnessing the Healing Power of Food: A Look Inside the American Heart Association’s Food is Medicine Research Initiative

Food Is Medicine interventions focused on underserved individuals and communities have the potential to transform the health of those affected by diet-related conditions positively.

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Nutrition and Exercise

Unraveling the Mystery: Why Ultra-processed Foods Are So Addictive According to Recent Clinical Research

Substantial evidence links ultra-processed foods to negative health outcomes. However, scientists have yet to determine exactly why these foods have such adverse effects.

Decentralized Trials

Everything You Need to Know About the Advent of Decentralized Trials

Distance between scientists and participants is no longer a limiting factor in many clinical trials, potentially transforming how researchers conduct future investigations.

Decentralized Trials

Decentralized Trials: Opening New Opportunities

Decentralized trials are an innovative approach to performing trials. Despite some complexities, they create opportunities where opportunities didn't exist before. They remove boundaries and provide diverse, hybrid settings that lead to increased flexibility, faster recruitment, and broader reach.

Challenges and Risks for Launching Decentralized Trials

Decentralized trials have challenges and risks that clinicians, CROs, and sponsors need to consider before starting one. There is a risk of disclosing sensitive patient information, data overflow, protocol deviations, and data loss. Discover the challenges and solutions with Studypages.

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Recognizing the Importance and Complexity of Clinical Trials

Researchers and reviewers spend months or even years addressing the complexity of clinical research. They look at each study carefully to ensure the procedure is as effective as possible and the results will further our knowledge of diseases.

Approaching patients early on helps you expand patient access and increase potential participation

Research Recruitment

How To Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment Rates

Research can’t move forward without a large, diverse selection of participants. The resulting delays can lead to high costs and may cause study failure or force teams to abandon the research.

Data in Research

Studypages Data: Revolutionizing Clinical Trials with Data

Clinical trials are an essential part of the drug development process. However, without proper data collection, management, and analysis, clinical trials would hardly be successful.

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Research Highlights

The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Clinical Trials and Research in Healthcare

Clinical research in healthcare pushes science and medicine forward for the benefit of patients. What is it, though? How does it work, and what should you know about it? Read on to learn more.

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Ethics in Research

Ethical Considerations in Clinical Research

Researchers have an ethical obligation to provide clinical trial participants with a robust explanation of the trial. This ensures that participants can make an informed choice about their participation.

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Research Highlights

Clinical Trials in Specific Therapeutic Areas: Insights and Developments

Scientific research is a global endeavor, with thousands of clinical trials in progress at any given time. Researchers focus on the most common health conditions, such as cancer or heart disease, as well as rare diseases with only a handful of known cases.

Data in Research

Clinical Trials Data Management and Analysis

Medical research is a process of gathering data that will expand scientists' understanding of human health. Researchers take steps to ensure the accuracy of all their data, then use sophisticated methods to analyze their findings to ensure the accuracy of their conclusions.

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Diversity in Research

The Importance Of Diversity in Clinical Trials

The people participating in clinical trials should represent the people who will use the treatment in real life. That allows researchers to identify differences in safety and efficacy across groups during the trial process.

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Decentralized Trials

Top Challenges of Decentralized Trials and How To Overcome Them

Post-COVID, decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) have become more common. However, there are challenges to keep in mind, such as compliance, data tracking, and integration of new technology. Fortunately, there are solutions to enhance DCTs that consider all the risks for better implementation.

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Saving Lives Through Data and AI in Organ Transplantation

In a groundbreaking move that underlines the promising usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI) in organ transplantation, Studypages has joined forces with the PUMP Consortium to revolutionize the field of liver organ transplantation using technology and AI.

Decentralized Trials

FDA Decentralized Trials and Digital Health Technologies - A New Era in Clinical Research

While many DHTs have been around for years, recent advancements have been game-changers for decentralized models, which can't rely on traditional research facilities or specialists for data collection

Pet Health

Studypages + AVMA = Reimagining Animal Research

Studypages has partnered with the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to increase accessibility to animal research. By leveraging Studypages' platform, pet owners can actively participate in ongoing research projects.

Research Highlights

Clinical Trials 2024: 11 Studies That Have Researchers Excited

From cancer and depression to patient triage and artificial intelligence, researchers are investigating a range of diseases, conditions, and technological advancements, with current clinical trials showing encouraging results.

Diversity in Research

How Using AI in Clinical Trials Can Increase Participant Diversity

AI and machine learning tools have the potential to change how researchers recruit and enroll clinical trial participants. By using AI to guide study design and identify potential participants, scientists can ensure that they work with diverse participants to develop cutting-edge treatments

Research Highlights

Cancer "Wonder Drug" Still Effective Decades After Discovery—Are There Others Like It?

It’s been over twenty years since the FDA first approved Gleevec, the cancer drug hailed as a "miracle cure" due to its incredibly high success rates in treating chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, a rare cancer of the bone marrow.

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Unlocking Potential: Why Studypages is Introducing HIPAA-compliant, Web-based Messaging to Clinical Research Communication

In today's tech-driven world, communication is changing rapidly. One major shift is the move from “old-fashioned” SMS to web-based chat platforms, driven by both the need for speed and concerns about the security of SMS. Web chat messaging is quickly becoming the go-to method of communication.

Decentralized Trials

Decentralized Clinical Trials: Definition, Benefits and Challenges

In decentralized clinical trials, some portion of the clinical trial’s activities occur at locations other than the main clinical site, recorded with the use of digital tools.

Diversity in Research

Does a Lack of Diversity in Research Funding Threaten the Future of Biomedical Research?

New findings show that between 1991 and 2020, Black and female researchers were "significantly underrepresented" when it came to getting research grants, revealing a growing funding gap among investigators based on race, gender, and ethnicity.